. A shorter stack moved all in for 10,000 and Galfond made the call. The short stack had 
and got no help from the community cards. Galfond is now well on his way with about 78,000 chips.
2007 World Series of Poker
Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1d
Event Info
2007 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000
Players Left 1 / 6,358
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. A shorter stack moved all in for 10,000 and Galfond made the call. The short stack had and got no help from the community cards. Galfond is now well on his way with about 78,000 chips.
In the cutoff a player bets 2,500 preflop, and Zak Alameddine raises to 8,500 on the button. James Mackey in the big blind goes all in for 39,100 and Alameddine thinks about it a long time, and finally calls, showing
. The cutoff folds. Mackey has 
and is eliminated. Alameddine has 136,300.
He's known as X-22 because he was the 22nd player on the list when he won a big backgammon tournament.
X-22 wouldn't reveal his last name until a passing tournament director told everyone. Once the players found out, he treated them to a Triple Quack followed by a Rainbow Bet -- another Magriel specialty. It's a bet with one of each chip. One orange, one yellow, one blue, and one black makes 6,600. X-22 is quite the character.
Boyd:
Opponent:
Boyd, in a coinflip situation, came up short when his opponent made a straight on a board of
.
Player A raises reflop and is reraised by player B.
Player A thinks for a long time, says "Okay, let's race," and reraises all in.
Player B shrugs, calls and rolls over
. Player A then shows 
.Not much of a race there. Time for some poker karma.
Flop:
. . . . No more help came for player A. The poker gods have spoken.
Tommy Vu is all in preflop with
and is called by 
. He is out.
